Surreal
Posted: Tue 13 June, 2006 Filed under: Weirdness 2 Comments »Depressingly, Herself insisted on listening to a certain football game over the weekend. Well, some of it, anyway.
At halftime, they went to some shonky stand near London Bridge, where allegedly lots of people were watching the match.
The shonky stand was sponsored by the “Official Beer of England”.
That beer was – um – Carlsberg?
Beached
Posted: Thu 1 June, 2006 Filed under: Thoughts, Weirdness Leave a comment »Maybe this is just me, but doesn’t it seem a bit bizarre to have a sand-sculpting festival in Brighton, one of the stoniest beaches (with the least sand) in the country?
In fact they’ve had to import sand from Holland in order to have the festival at Brighton.
Weirder than weird, in my oh-so-humble opinion…
Number Plates
Posted: Thu 1 June, 2006 Filed under: News, Thoughts, Weirdness 3 Comments »OK, great idea, releasing new-style number plates that supposedly make them harder to remove/swap“. In theory, anyway.
However, what you have to bear in mind is that when people “clone” cars in order to evade things like Congestion Charge, speed cameras and the like, they don’t actually steal the number plates in the first place. They just make a note of what the reg is, wander into any car-parts place, and ask for a pair of numberplates to be made up with that registration. No need to prove you own that car, or anything.
So what would actually stop this issue would be changing the law to make it so that you have to produce – say – the tax disc, or the insurance documents for the car when you ask for numberplates to be made up, and they can only be made up in the same registration as that on the documents you’ve provided.
Common sense really, isn’t it?
BB VII
Posted: Tue 30 May, 2006 Filed under: Thoughts, Weirdness 3 Comments »So another person has walked out of the current series of Big Brother. That’s four departures, only one of which was a “proper” eviction…
Mind you, I’m not quite sure that George got the idea of Big Brother, because his reason for leaving was “My reason for leaving the Big Brother house is the thought of fame and how I would like to continue my private life – and fame is too much for me.”. Surely that’s the entire reason most people go on the bloody programme, to self-publicise themselves and become “famous” ?
Motivation…
Posted: Tue 30 May, 2006 Filed under: News, Thoughts, Weirdness 2 Comments »I’m intrigued about one thing regarding the latest media outrage against John Prescott.
Are they wanting him to go because a) he was photographed playing a game while nominally “in charge” of the country? Or b) because he was playing croquet, “a game for the upper class”, while Prescott is supposed to be “working class”.
Would the media (and in particular, the Mail on Sunday, who paid for the photos) have been anywhere near as interested if Prescott had been playing, say, darts? Or five-a-side football?
Dodgy
Posted: Fri 26 May, 2006 Filed under: Thoughts, Weirdness 3 Comments »Now, this may come as a shock. A D4D™ post about football.
Now, I don’t know much about the game (which will come as a shock to no-one), but how come Belarus’ goal last night was allowed, when the goalkeeper was writhing round on the floor, having just ruptured his groin?
Obviously if he’d been a clumsy twat and had just fallen over, thus allowing the goal to be scored, that’s fine. But when he’s on the floor in pain, doesn’t it make sense to at least disallow a goal that takes advantage of that ?